DP-2. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics: 2000
Geographic Area: Grant County
[Data based on a sample. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions, see text]
| Subject | Number | Percent | Subject | Number | Percent | |
| SCHOOL ENROLLMENT | NATIVITY AND PLACE OF BIRTH | |||||
| Population 3 years and over | Total poplulation | 5,144 | 100.0 | |||
| enrolled in school | 1,322 | 100.0 | Native | 5,098 | 99.1 | |
| Nursery school, preschool | 94 | 7.1 | Born in United States | 5,078 | 98.7 | |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 4.5 | State of residence | 3,533 | 68.7 | |
| Elementary school (grades 1-8) | 667 | 50.5 | Different state | 1,545 | 30.0 | |
| High school (grades 9-12) | 388 | 29.3 | Born outside United States | 20 | 0.4 | |
| College or graduate school | 113 | 8.5 | Foreign born | 46 | 0.9 | |
| Entered 1990 to March 2000 | 19 | 0.4 | ||||
| EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | Naturalized citizen | 13 | 0.3 | |||
| Population 25 years and over | 3,500 | 100.0 | Not a citizen | 33 | 0.6 | |
| Less than 9th grade | 179 | 5.1 | ||||
| 9th to 12th grade, no diploma | 320 | 9.1 | REGION OF BIRTH OF FOREIGN BORN | |||
| High school graduate (includes equivalency) | 1,368 | 39.1 | Total (excluding born at sea) | 46 | 100.0 | |
| Some college, no degree | 881 | 25.2 | Europe | 19 | 41.3 | |
| Associate degree | 184 | 5.3 | Asia | 13 | 28.3 | |
| Bachelor's degree | 419 | 12.0 | Africa | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Graduate or professional degree | 149 | 4.3 | Oceania | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Latin America | 14 | 30.4 | ||||
| Percent high school graduate or higher | 85.7 | (X) | Northern America | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Percent bachelor's degree or higher | 16.2 | (X) | ||||
| LANGUAGE SPOKEN AT HOME | ||||||
| MARITAL STATUS | Population 5 years and over | 4,869 | 100.0 | |||
| Population 15 years and over | 4,118 | 100.0 | English only | 4,724 | 97.0 | |
| Never married | 725 | 17.6 | Language other than English | 145 | 3.0 | |
| Now married, except separated | 2,637 | 64.0 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 50 | 1.0 | |
| Separated | 30 | 0.7 | Spanish | 93 | 1.9 | |
| Widowed | 414 | 10.1 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 30 | 0.6 | |
| Female | 341 | 8.3 | Other Indo-European languages | 44 | 0.9 | |
| Divorced | 312 | 7.6 | Speak English less than '"very well"' | 16 | 0.3 | |
| Female | 158 | 3.8 | Asian and Pacific Island languages | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Speak English less than '"very well"' | 4 | 0.1 | ||||
| GRANDPARENTS AS CAREGIVERS | ||||||
| Grandparent living in household | ANCESTRY (single and multiple) | |||||
| with one or more own grandchildren | Total population | 5,144 | 100.0 | |||
| under 18 years | 52 | 100.0 | Total ancestries reported | 4,415 | 85.8 | |
| Grandparent responsible for grandchildren | 32 | 61.5 | Arab | 2 | 0.0 | |
| Czech¹ | 185 | 3.6 | ||||
| VETERAN STATUS | Danish | 12 | 0.2 | |||
| Civilian population 18 years and over | 3,836 | 100.0 | Dutch | 136 | 2.6 | |
| Civilian veterans | 543 | 14.2 | English | 545 | 10.6 | |
| French (except Basque)¹ | 134 | 2.6 | ||||
| DISABILITY STATUS OF THE CIVILIAN | French Canadian¹ | 23 | 0.4 | |||
| NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POPULATION | German | 1,205 | 23.4 | |||
| Population 5 to 20 years | 1,212 | 100.0 | Greek | 1 | 0.0 | |
| With a disability | 84 | 6.9 | Hungarian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Population 21 to 64 years | 2,528 | 100.0 | Irish¹ | 484 | 9.4 | |
| With a disability | 427 | 16.9 | Italian | 46 | 0.9 | |
| Percent employed | 55.5 | (X) | Lithuanian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| No disability | 2,101 | 83.1 | Norwegian | 41 | 0.8 | |
| Percent employed | 83.5 | (X) | Polish | 40 | 0.8 | |
| Population 65 years and over | 1,031 | 100.0 | Portuguese | 5 | 0.1 | |
| With a disability | 444 | 43.1 | Russian | 9 | 0.2 | |
| Scotch-Irish | 53 | 1.0 | ||||
| Scottish | 40 | 0.8 | ||||
| RESIDENCE IN 1995 | Slovak | 0 | 0.0 | |||
| Population 5 years and over | 4,869 | 100.0 | Subsaharan African | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Same house in 1995 | 3,035 | 62.3 | Swedish | 56 | 1.1 | |
| Different house in the U.S. in 1995 | 1,811 | 37.2 | Swiss | 26 | 0.5 | |
| Same county | 858 | 17.6 | Ukrainian | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Different county | 953 | 19.6 | United States or American | 648 | 12.6 | |
| Same state | 647 | 13.3 | Welsh | 22 | 0.4 | |
| Different state | 306 | 6.3 | West Indian (excluding Hispanic groups) | 4 | 0.1 | |
| Elsewhere in 1995 | 23 | 0.5 | Other ancestries | 698 | 13.6 | |
| Date: July 7, 2006 | ||||||
| -Represent zero or rounds to zero. (X) Not applicable. | ||||||
| ¹ The data represent a combination of two ancestries shown separately in Summary File 3. Czech includes Czechoslovakian. French includes Alsatian. French Canadian includes Acadian/Cajun. Irish includes Celtic. | ||||||
| Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000. | ||||||
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- Page last updated December 31, 2008
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